Re: [PATCH] sparse: use the _Generic() version of __unqual_scalar_typeof()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 3:26 PM Luc Van Oostenryck
<luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the file is being checked with sparse, use the version of
> __unqual_scalar_typeof() using _Generic(), leaving the unoptimized
> version only for the oldest versions of GCC.

Side note: for unrelated reasons I decided to try to just raise the
gcc minimum to 4.9, which then makes this patch redundant. The old
non-_Generic() case simply doesn't exist any more.

Of course, maybe somebody screams about having to use some gcc-4.8
version in their environment so much that I'll revert it, but I doubt
it. gcc-4.8 had lots of problems.

                Linus